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What do I love most about Christmas?
It is the fact that I get to eat my most favorite meal out of my Mom’s cooking!

My mom’s macaroni is the best ever. Seriously! Everybody who has tasted it loves it and swears that there is no macaroni like other. Nurse friends leave with their dickies scrubs a bit tighter at the waist after eating at our Mom’s.

A new favorite is my Mom’s refrigerator cake. She has mastered that art of it not being too sweet and mashes the Graham crackers like the crust in blueberry pies.

So I guess not being able to stick to a diet this holiday season is a given.

How about some good old-fashioned home cooking? I have not been posting any home cooked meals lately – either we keep having the same meals or I always forget to take pictures of it. Thankfully, I have the iPhone to quickly snaps pictures of food lately.

Some yummy Pininyahang Manok:

We love having quail eggs, hotdogs and milk with this – so it’s a very creamy and yummy meal for the kids!

Nilagang baka:

The market ran out of beef so we had to settle for some buto-buto but it was the same

It’s going to be make-your-house-ready-for-Christmas day for us here! So I am going to be busy setting up our bookshelf speakers with Christmas songs while we put our tree up!

Here is a new series on my blog – the Eat It! series – meals I have cooked on my own. Hopefully I can add more soon. I have cooked korean beef stew – my son’s favorite, beef & mushroom and beef strips with oyster sauce, all thanks to Mama Sita’s  cookbook. I hope this is the start of my intgrest in cooking.

If I am not busy with learning the megameeting web conferencing software I am ordered at work I am busy looking at recipes and spices.

I deserve one of those samsung lcd televisions as present to myself for cooking three times the past week when we had no maid!

It is a big feat for me considering I work full-time. (We were out, conveniently, four days of the week. Guess who initiated it?) But the better thing was they liked my cooking!

I cooked the following:
mechado
korean beef stew – their favorite
pork with mushroom and corn

I have pictures but I haven’t downloaded them from my camera yet. Next time!

This was the simple but delicious feast my Mom cooked up for her granddaughter’s birthday last weekend. I was busy preparing for the kiddie party and after finally signing up with insurance, thanks to information I have gathered from Wholesaleinsurance.net, we didn’t have much extra left to have it catered. My mom volunteered to just be the one to cook, and it ended up being more delicious than having it catered. It was done with love, that’s why!